The Academy of Electronic Music opens its doors to drive forward a new socially driven online school in the field of Music Technology

Point Blank, in association with Armada Music, Google+ and DJ Mag, are proud to present the Academy of Electronic Music. It’s the world’s first socially-driven online music school, giving aspiring music producers and DJs the chance to share their best tracks, get feedback from peers, industry experts and their favourite DJs and producers, plus the chance to be mentored as the world’s next superstar producer. The ultimate prize is to get your track signed to Armada Music – awarded best global dance label for the fifth year running.

The Academy will give aspiring music producers and DJs the chance to share their best tracks, get feedback from peers, industry experts and their favourite DJs and producers, plus the chance to be mentored as the world’s next superstar producer. The ultimate prize is to get your track signed to Armada Music – awarded best global dance label for the fifth year running.

As the official education partners to the Academy, we’ll be providing professional music production training for seven lucky finalists via our flagship Electronic Music Composition course. This course is designed to allow students to take the next step in their productions by teaching the fundamentals of composition and creative songwriting.

The Academy of Electronic Music will allow electronic music fans from around the world to tune into the Academy, follow their favourite producers, collaborate with one and another and access professional music training via interactive Google+ Hangout tutorials.

Key datesSept 3rd – Academy official launchAdmissions phase opens and producers submit their best productions via the website. All styles within the electronic dance music genre are welcome. The top 50 is determined by votes to enter the next selection phase.

October 19th – The Top 7During the Amsterdam Music Festival (part of the Amsterdam Dance Event), the seven talents that are selected by the Armada Music A&R team are announced, as they join the Academy’s class of 2013 and have their tracks released.

October 21st – The start of The AcademyThe Academy of Electronic Music will teach the seven talents everything there is to know about electronic music. Exclusive lessons will be conducted via Google+ Hangouts by Point Blank’s expert tutors and producers, industry guests and surprise artists. Everyone will be able to interact and benefit from the insights in these sessions as the Hangouts will be broadcast live and recordings will be available immediately afterwards.